Waltz Into Darkness

Waltz Into Darkness
Title Waltz Into Darkness PDF eBook
Author Cornell Woolrich
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2020-01-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1613161522

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From “the supreme master of suspense” comes the chilling chronicle of one man’s descent into madness. (New York Times) When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he’s shocked that she doesn’t match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters, a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune. Alone, desperate, and inexplicably love-sick, Louis quickly descends into madness, obsessed with finding Julia and bringing her to justice — and simply with seeing her again. He engages the services of a private detective to do so, embarking on a search that spans the southeast of the country. When he finally tracks her down, the nightmare truly begins… A dark tale of the destructive power of love, Waltz into Darkness is a classic “femme fatale” narrative that shows “the father of the modern suspense story” (LA Times) at the top of his unsettling craft. It has been adapted for film twice, most notably serving as the basis for Francois Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid.

Waltz Into Darkness

Waltz Into Darkness
Title Waltz Into Darkness PDF eBook
Author Cornell Woolrich
Publisher Penguin Mass Market
Pages 322
Release 1995
Genre Detective and mystery stories
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Middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiance died 15 years ago on the eve of their wedding, decides to take one more chance on love and marry a woman he knows only through correspondence. When she arrives, she's younger and more beautiful that he had expected--and far more deadly.

Waltz Into Darkness

Waltz Into Darkness
Title Waltz Into Darkness PDF eBook
Author William Irish
Publisher
Pages 326
Release 1947
Genre
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The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel

The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel
Title The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel PDF eBook
Author Anne Enright
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 264
Release 2011-10-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 039308325X

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Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction "A tour de force."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review "A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity…This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who’ve ever lived." —Elle

Vatican Waltz

Vatican Waltz
Title Vatican Waltz PDF eBook
Author Roland Merullo
Publisher Crown
Pages 215
Release 2013-12-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307452972

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The new novel from the award-winning author of Breakfast with Buddha and Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a young Catholic woman jolted from a quietly devout life in pursuit of a mysterious calling. Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life outside of Boston, guided by her Catholic faith. When she loses her beloved grandmother, she begins experiencing “spells” of such intense spiritual intimacy that she wonders about her sanity. Devoted to her elderly father and not particularly interested in dating and socializing, she develops a deep friendship with her parish priest. His congregation sees him as provocative and radical, but he encourages Cynthia to explore her faith—however it presents itself. When he is killed in a mysterious accident, a message begins to emerge from Cynthia’s prayers: God is calling her to be the first female Catholic priest. Her revelation is met with ridicule by certain of the more reactionary officials she reaches out to within the Church. Unable to tune out the divine messages, she lets the power of unswerving faith drive her all the way to the Vatican in pursuit of a destiny she doesn’t fully understand—and a turn of events that will inevitably bring long overdue change to the Catholic Church. From the Hardcover edition.

I Married a Dead Man

I Married a Dead Man
Title I Married a Dead Man PDF eBook
Author Cornell Woolrich
Publisher Penguin Classics
Pages 0
Release 2024-06-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780241695869

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What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth - and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways...

The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black
Title The Bride Wore Black PDF eBook
Author Cornell Woolrich
Publisher iBooks
Pages 0
Release 2001
Genre Detective and mystery stories
ISBN 9780743413169

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AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew who she was, where she came from, or why she had entered their lives. All they really knew about her was that she possessed a terrifying beauty-and that each time she appeared, a man died horribly. . . .